what’s the only thing worse than a Top 10 List?

a Top 11 List.

especially one that whines about preserving Vermont.

“What’s Wal-Mart?”

in their yearly list of misguided charities/photo ops, aka “America’s 11 Most Endangered Places”, the National Trust for Historic Preservation dropped the bomb and listed the “State of Vermont” as endangered due to the expansion of American behemoth, Wal-Mart.

it may be hard to fathom for the shut-ins at the Natl. Trust for Whatever, but to call Wal-Mart out on expansion by the time it builds in Vermont has to be the most last-second, futile movement since the “Save David Caruso” campaign began after he left NYPD Blue.

the point is, Wal-Mart’s the biggest corporation in America for a good reason. oh look, they’ve already expanded everywhere else. vermont is the last place in america wal-mart would do business if they had their choice. oh wait, they do, and it is.

Vermont’s Beauty

the Trust is claiming that “seven new mammoth mega-stores” (hyperbole, anyone?) and the already-existent FOUR (yes, that fits on one hand) Wal-Mart stores will destroy Vermont’s, yeah, get this…..”sense of place.”

if 11 Wal-Marts qualifies as ruining a place, Vermont appears to be the last state standing. the average number of Wal-Mart stores in the other 49 states is actually 179.3. ironic because the square footage of 179.3 Wal-Marts is actually larger than the entire state of Vermont.

anyway, hopefully Wal-Mart chills out on the megaxpansion, but at the same time, from now on let’s not unnecessarily add Vermont to a semi-newsworthy story just because nothing ever happens there cause i’ve clearly spent too much time on this already. something tells me a bad Michael Moore movie is just waiting to happen.